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UCD3138A
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This digital power supply controller from Texas Instruments intelligently optimizes dead time to deliver superior efficiency and performance.

Description

The UCD3138 is a digital power supply controller from Texas Instruments offering superior levels of integration and performance in a single-chip solution. The flexible nature of the UCD3138 makes it suitable for a wide variety of power conversion applications. In addition, multiple peripherals inside the device have been specifically optimized to enhance the performance of AC-DC and isolated DC-DC applications and reduce the solution component count in the IT and network infrastructure space.

The UCD3138 controller is a fully programmable solution offering customers complete control of their application, along with ample ability to differentiate their solution. At the same time, TI is committed to simplifying our customers’ development effort by offering best-in-class development tools, including application firmware, Code Composer Studio™ software development environment, and TI’s power development GUI which lets customers configure and monitor key system parameters.

At the core of the UCD3138 controller are the digital control loop peripherals, also known as Digital Power Peripherals (DPPs). Each DPP implements a high-speed digital control loop consisting of a dedicated Error Analog-to-Digital Converter (EADC), a PID-based 2-pole/2-zero digital compensator and DPWM outputs with 250-ps pulse width resolution. The device also contains a 12-bit, 267-ksps general-purpose ADC with up to 14 channels, timers, interrupt control, PMBus, and UART communications ports. The device is based on a 32-bit ARM7TDMI-S RISC microcontroller that performs real-time monitoring, configures peripherals, and manages communications. The ARM microcontroller executes its program out of programmable flash memory as well as on-chip RAM and ROM.

In addition to the FDPP, specific power management peripherals have been added to enable high efficiency across the entire operating range, high integration for increased power density, reliability, and lowest overall system cost and high flexibility with support for the widest number of control schemes and topologies. Such peripherals include: light load burst mode, synchronous rectification, LLC and phase-shifted full bridge mode switching, input voltage feed forward, copper trace current sense, ideal diode emulation, constant current constant power control, synchronous rectification soft on and off, peak current mode control, flux balancing, secondary side input voltage sensing, high-resolution current sharing, hardware-configurable soft start with pre bias, as well as several other features. Topology support has been optimized for voltage mode and peak current mode controlled phase-shifted full bridge, single and dual phase PFC, bridgeless PFC, hard-switched full bridge and half bridge, and LLC half bridge and full bridge.

Features

Digital Control of up to 3 Independent Feedback Loops

Dedicated PID-Based hardware

2-Pole/2-Zero Configurable

Nonlinear Control

Up to 16 MHz Error Analog-to-Digital Converter (EADC)

Configurable Resolution as Small as 1mV/LSB

Automatic Resolution Selection

Up to 8x Oversampling

Hardware-Based Averaging (up to 8x)

14-Bit Effective Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)

Adaptive Sample Trigger Positioning

Up to 8 High Resolution Digital Pulse Width Modulated (DPWM) Outputs

250-ps Pulse Width Resolution

4-ns Frequency Resolution

4-ns Phase Resolution

Adjustable Phase Shift Between Outputs

Adjustable Dead-band Between Pairs

Cycle-by-Cycle Duty Cycle Matching

Up to 2-MHz Switching Frequency

Configurable PWM Edge Movement

Trailing Modulation

Leading Modulation

Triangular Modulation

Configurable Feedback Control

Voltage Mode

Average Current Mode

Peak Current Mode Control

Constant Current

Constant Power

Configurable Modulation Methods

Frequency Modulation

Phase Shift Modulation

Pulse Width Modulation

Fast, Automatic, and Smooth Mode Switching

Frequency Modulation and PWM

Phase Shift Modulation and PWM

High Efficiency and Light Load Management

Burst Mode

Ideal Diode Emulation

Synchronous Rectifier Soft On/Off

Low IC Standby Power

Soft Start / Stop with and without Prebias

Fast Input Voltage Feed Forward Hardware

Primary Side Voltage Sensing

Copper Trace Current Sensing

Flux and Phase Current Balancing for Nonpeak Current Mode Control Applications